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Refuse? Or tried and it was so complicated it didn’t work?
If you can use Twitter and email, you're capable of using Mastodon.
My feet are capable of walking 100 miles. I’m still not going to do that.
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Who else would still want to advertise on twitter?
I don’t understand why people even use twitter at all at this point.
I use mostly to follow indie game devs, to follow their progress and not miss announcements of release dates, and also a few artists.
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For some reason, the fight of most social media against any third party way to access them comfortably helped people like me finding the motivation to get rid of them altogether.
Yep. Instagram has been so hostile up logged-out people that it drove me away, and I actively recommend businesses avoid. Prior to this, quite a few small businesses I ran across used Instagram as their website, but it's completely useless if people can't see anything.
Pretty much. I ditched my Facebook account in 2017 and never really messed with IG. At some point I just wasn't seeing much of what I liked about the site initially (a feed of what friends and acquaintances were up to) and didn't find it worth the tradeoff - lots of companies are skeevy, but I might continue using their products if I get something out of them. Didn't find FB to be worth it.
But still, I'm in a few long running group chats with friends and maybe 60-70% of the links people post are to Meta sites. Can't access even though it's almost always just something reposted from a (openly accessible) website.
The bots and the spam ruining platforms is bad enough. Putting such a large chunk of actual online human conversation behind login-walls has seriously put a dent in things. I feel like this is the other half of the whole "search engines suck now because of ML-generated/SEO-optimized junk" argument. There's nothing to balance that stuff out because you need a sketchy persistent, personally-identifiable account to access the rest.
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It's not it for you, but it sounds like you are more of an edge case. I think it is true for a lot of people. I don't see any activity myself, I don't use Twitter any more. I had an addiction which peaked with the UK 2019 election and I had to quit after that. It's an awful drug which gives no high and terrible side effects.
Please be aware that the both of you don’t know, unless you’re not mentioning any studies on purpose. You’re both projecting your own subjective experience onto an entire community.
You’re right. Did some googling and it seems I’m wrong.
https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/doomscrolling-impact...
> 53% of Gen Z “doomscroll” and 31% of adults in general do so.
Now I understand how Facebook/Twitter are worth so much. This is crazy
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If you can use Twitter and email, you're capable of using Mastodon.
It’s been ~three years since the last try, but I’ve made multiple mastodon accounts and none of them took
Are you saying this is due to not having an interest in the people posting on Mastodon or due to a difficulty in using Mastodon itself?
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It’s been ~three years since the last try, but I’ve made multiple mastodon accounts and none of them took
Are you saying this is due to not having an interest in the people posting on Mastodon or due to a difficulty in using Mastodon itself?
mastodon is beyond broken. also, network effect.
it's fine for cyber security content and furry con. besides that, everyone's on meta or xitter.
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#47Are we violating TOS by using this?
barely. you're more helping them by keeping the network effect going despite how hostile to users they make it.
for one high quality person they retain thanks to this, they can abuse other one thousand who will also stay because of that person.
basically, they will moan it will be shut down but there won't be any true effort
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It’s been ~three years since the last try, but I’ve made multiple mastodon accounts and none of them took
Are you saying this is due to not having an interest in the people posting on Mastodon or due to a difficulty in using Mastodon itself?
little from column a little from column b
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#49Folks, let's talk about XDeck XD